Petrochemicals

SENER has named Borja Zárraga as Business Development and Commercial Manager of the company’s Energy sector.

Setting almost 400 modules, Mammoet achieved successful scope completion at Sasol’s ethane cracker and derivatives project at Lake Charles.

DuPont Sustainable Solutions will assist Rain Carbon with its risk management for the company’s global safety support programme.

The API has published a new guide for innovative drone use in the oil and natural gas industry.

The second to come online out of seven in its Lake Charles Chemicals Project, Sasol’s unit will produce ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol.

INEOS has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Aramco and Total, to build three new plants in the Jubail 2 complex in Saudi Arabia.

BASF-YPC has started up its second propionic acid plant with SINOPEC in Nanjing, China.

Located near Brookshire, Texas, MAN Energy Solutions has opened its North American headquarters.

On the opening morning of Downstream 2019, ExxonMobil, Cheniere Energy, SABIC, Meridian Energy Group and Bechtel will be planning for a new era of capital project sustainability.

GlobalData reports that new CTO and MTO projects in China may face delay as the government increases efforts to meet clean energy targets.

A new report from GlobalData predicts that India’s phenol capacity will grow tenfold to 2022.

Delta Controls has signed an agreement to purchase the Mobrey line of measurement products from Emerson.

GlobalData reports that the packaging industry will drive polypropylene growth in India over next four years.

BASF has announced that it has successfully developed a process to produce methanol with no greenhouse gas emissions.

McDermott has been awarded a FEED contract by MOL for their petrochemical complex in Hungary.